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A. Gabauer, K. Höftberger, S. Knierbein:
"Designing Places of Soulful Encounters? Everyday Life and the Dilemma of Care and Uncare in the City";
Talk: Defining Publicness International Workshop, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Griechenland (invited); 2021-10-20.

Public spaces in contemporary cities have long been conceived as places for meaningful encounter, de- alienation and re-democratisation. However, less research efforts have been put in theorizing the ambivalent and sometimes uncanny nature of care and uncaring relations unfolding in everyday encounters in the lived urban spaces, understood as geographies of everyday life. This lecture seeks to introduce debates about care and uncare which have emerged from the fields of social sciences and humanities into architecture, urban design and planning debates in order to help qualify the nature of different encounters taking place publicly in our cities.